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Hello! I am conducting a syntax research on ellipsis and need 19 sentences translated in a language, with possibly some glosses or word-to-word translation. If a sentence can be translated in several ways (e.g. with different word orders), please indicate that possibility. 1. Who came? 2. Did Peter come? 3. Was it Peter who came? ≈ Did PETER come? (context: there was a situation of someone’s coming: we heard the door open, but we didn’t see the person who came, so we are not sure who exactly it was) 4. Did anybody come? 5. I don’t know who came. 6. He asked whether Peter came. 7. Helen wonders whether it was Peter who came. ≈ …whether PETER came. 8. Someone came, and Helen wonders who. 9. Someone came, but I don’t know whether PETER. (meaning: I don’t know whether it was Peter who came; the sentence in English is ungrammatical, but it is important to see whether there is a possibility to elide the rest of the sentence and mention only the Peter-constituent in the language you use for translation) 10. What is Peter reading? 11. Has Peter bought an apartment? 12. Is Peter reading A BOOK? (meaning: I see he reads something, but I can’t make out whether it is a book or a journal) 13. Helen doesn’t know what Peter is reading. 14. Helen asked whether Peter is reading A BOOK. (and not a journal etc.) 15. I wonder whether Peter has already bought an apartment. 16. Peter is reading something, but Helen doesn’t know what. 17. Peter is reading something, but I am not sure whether he is reading A BOOK. 18. This is Peter. 19. It was Peter.